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Word: fourneau (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serums against diphtheria, bubonic plague, tetanus and other dread diseases. These serums are sold all over the world. Professor Ramon is famed as the man who developed diphtheria antitoxin, and the principle of multiple vaccination: immunization against several diseases with a single vaccination. > Dr. Ernest François Auguste Fourneau, master of chemical therapy, known for his local anesthetics, stovaine and stovarsol. Dr. Fourneau, a serious-looking man, when asked how he happened to name his discoveries, always says that he was inspired by the English translation of Fourneau, which is "stove." In 1935, after trying 1,161 sulfonamide compounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pasteur's Pride | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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